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Christina Firpo
Assistant Professor
Southeast Asia
E-mail: cfirpo@calpoly.edu
Office: Bldg. 47, Room 27A
Phone: (805)756-2834
EDUCATION
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Ph.D University of California at Los Angeles
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M.A. University of California at Los Angeles
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B.A. The George Washington University
RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS
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Race, Gender and Family in Colonial Vietnam
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Colonial Networks of Human Trafficking in Mainland Southeast Asia
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The History of Prostitution in Colonial Vietnam
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS
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2007 “’Boat People’ from Vietnam” in Encyclopedia of the Modern World (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Forthcoming.
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2007 “The Vietnamese Empire 939-1945,” Encyclopedia of World Empires (NY: Facts on File) 1-45. Forthcoming.
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2007 “Lost Boys: ‘Abandoned’ Eurasian Children and the Management of the Racial Topography in Colonial Indochina, 1938-1945.” French Colonial History (Vol. 8, 2007) 203-224.
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2005 “’President Ho Speaks to the Children’: Thieu Sinh Magazine and the New Child in 1945 Revolutionary Vietnam” Southeast Review of Asian Studies (Vol. 27, 2005) 37-48.
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2004 “Vietnam National Archives II” Bulletin of Committee on Research Materials on Southeast Asia (Vol. 28, No. 8, 2004) 8-19.
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2002 “Coining an Electronic Dialect? Erasing Regional Differences in Vietnam in Internet Chat-Rooms.” Association of Asian Studies Newsletter (Vol. 46, No. 4, Winter 2002) 14-15.
COURSES
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HIST 215 – Modern World History
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HIST 303 – Sex, Race and Orientalism in Colonial Southeast Asia
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HIST 319 – Modern South and Southeast Asia
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HIST 421 – The History of Prostitution
